PostModern Architecture

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Post-Modern Architecture

• Evolved from Modernist movement
• Combined new ideas with traditional forms
• First examples are from the 1950s
• Mixed the clean lines of modernist architecture
  with an ornaments

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Post-Modern Architects

• Michael Graves
• Richard Meier
• Cesar Pelli
• John Burgee
• Robert Venturi
• Frank Gehry

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Graves The Triumph of Post-Modernism

• Probably the most famous architect of the genre
• Used colors from nature
• Dramatic entrances are a trademark
• Converted to Postmodernism during the 1970s

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Frank Gehry

• Born in Canada
• Most provocative post-modern architect working
  today.
• Expresses purpose through form.

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Robert Venturi

• The theoretician of Post-Modernism
• Believes architecture should incorporate multiple
  styles
• Deliberately makes designs unassuming and
  unpretentious

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Post Modern Architecture Close to Home

• The High Museum of Art old and new
• First section by Richard Meier
• Second Addition by Renzo Piano